Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default by nicoburns on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:06AM (#44658267)

It isn't until you need something like Microsoft Office or Photoshop. At which point you're either using FOSS alternatives (and dealing with it's incompatibilities with the proprietary file formats) or dealing with a very fragile wine setup.

If you don't need that kind of thing then Linux is indeed pretty good these days. But especially in a business context, a lot of people do.

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Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default by lagniappe on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @08:44AM (#44658594)

> It isn't until you need something like Microsoft Office or Photoshop

I run both of those on Linux, with no trouble. Who told you this?

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Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default by chromiummmm on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:22AM (#44659563)

How do you run ms office on Linux?

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Re:Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default by qwerpy on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @03:47PM (#44663198)

I've been waiting for years for an acceptable way to run Onenote on Linux. The browser does not count, it fetches pages on demand and is painfully slow. There are some wrappers around the browser, those don't count either. Running a Windows VM is unacceptable. People don't have success running it through Wine so I'm not going to try.

Why do I have to use Onenote? It's free. It syncs well with other computers and mobile apps. Sharing notebooks with other people works and is free. It's intuitive enough that my wife can use it. The search works, the formatting is rich enough, you can paste in pictures.

I don't need the rest of Office. The online versions or Google docs are good enough. If I can get Onenote and Fusion360 working well on Linux, I would likely switch to Linux.

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